Adjustable weather-strip.



G ANDERSON.

ADJUSTABLE WEATHER STRIP,

APPLICATION FILED JULY 15, 1909. Patented June 14, 1910.

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ADJUSTABLE WEATHER-STRIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 14, 1910.

Application filed July 15, 1909. Serial No. 507,851.

T 0 all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clay Center, in the county of Clay and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Weather- Strips, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to improvements in adjustable weather strips, and is particularly adapted to be applied to the bottoms of doors, and has for its object to provide a weather strip which will not interfere with the opening and closing of the door and which will effectually close the space between the bottom of the door and the sill.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the lower portion of a door frame and door, with my improved adjustable weather strip attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a cross sectional View on the line ww of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view through the bottom of the door and the adjustable weather strip attached thereto, the hinged flap being shown pressed out by the spring. Fig. A is a fragmentary plan view of the bottom of the door showing the hinged flap and the weather strip in a depressed or lowered position. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary bottom plan view of what is shown in Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, which represent the preferred embodiment of my invention, 1 designates the door to the bottom and outside of which is fastened a transverse piece of molding 2. The molding 2 is provided with a depending portion 3 and a forward overhanging portion 4. Into the depending portion 3, near each end thereof, the leaves of a pair of hinges 5, 5, are countersunk for a considerable distance, while the other leaves of the hinges are countersunk in a longitudinally extending cut-out portion 6 in the inner face of a hinged flap 7. While I have described a pair of hinges 5, 5, but one hinge is shown and that in dotted lines.

Preferably centrally located of the molding 2 and hinged flap 7 is an actuating means 8 which raises the hinged flap when the door is opened. Spaced from and secured longitudinally of the bottom of the depending portion 3 of the molding is a bearing or arm 9, one end 10 of which is bent at right angles and projected into the bottom of the depending portion, while the other or free end of the arm is encircled by the eye of a screw eye 11. A diagonally disposed arm 12 has one end 13 thereof turned loosely around the bearing 9, while its other end is pivotally connected at 14- to the inner side of the hinged flap 7. Surrounding the bearing 9 and interposed between the screw-eye 11 and the end 13 of the diagonally disposed arm 12 is a coil spring 15 which presses against the end 13 of the arm, so that whenever the door is open the hinged flap 7 is in a raised position as shown in Fig. 3.

When the door is closed, however, the hinged flap 7 contacts with a small roller 16 secured, preferably, near the bottom of the left hand side of the frame of the door, and is depressed until the lower beveled edge of the flap contacts with the beveled edge of the sill 17, thereby closing all space beneath the bottom of the door.

Referring to the molding 2, it will be noted that the depending portion 3 and the interior of the overhanging portion 4, which is concaved as at A", form a housing in which the flap 7 is hinged. The upper edge of the flap 7 is beveled, as at 7*, and the lower edge of the overhanging portion is beveled, as at P, and hence when the door is opened, the flap is raised by the actuating means 8 until the beveled edge 7 contacts with the depending portion 3 and the top of the flap abuts the beveled edge 1 as shown in Fig. 3. When the flap 7 is depressed, as when the door is closed, the flap will swing on its hinges 5, 5, and the upper edge of the flap will closely follow the contour of the concaved interior of the overhanging portion 41, whereby a minimum of space will result between the upper edge of the flap and the concaved interior of the overhanging portion 1. If the lower beveled edge of the flap 7 and the beveled edge of the sill 17 are properly adjusted with respect to each other, the top edge of the flap 7 and the concaved interior 4 of the overhanging portion will contact, when the door is closed, as shown in Fig. 8, thereby effectually closing all space beneath the bottom of the door.

What I claim is:

1. An adjustable weather strip, in combination with a door, a bearing, a movably mounted flap, an arm slidably mounted on said bearing and adapted to engage said flap, means adapted to cause said slidably mounted arm to raise said flap when said i door is open, and means adapted to depress said flap when said door is closed.

2. An adjustable Weather strip, in combination with a door, a bearing, a movably mounted flap, an arm slidably mounted on said bearing and adapted to bear against said flap, elastic means adapted to press against said arm to hold said flap in a raised position when said door is open, and means adapted to depress said flap when said door is closed. I

3. An adjustable weather strip, in combination with a door, a longitudinallyextending bearing, a pivotally-supported flap, an arm movably mounted on said longitudinally-extending bearing and adapted to bear against said flap, elastic means mounted on said longitudinally-extending bearing and adapted to bear against said arm to hold said flap in a raised position when said door is open, and means adapted to depress said flap when said door is closed.

4. An adjustable weather-strip, in combination with a door, a bearing, a pivotally mounted flap, an arm pivotally connected at one end with said flap and movably and pivotally mounted on said hearing at its other end, elastic means mounted on said bearing and holding said flap in a raised position when said door is open, and means 5. An adjustable weather strip, in combination with a door, a molding carried by said door, a bearing arranged longitudinally of said molding, a flap pivotally connected to said molding, an arm connected at one end to said flap and movably connected to said bearing at its other end, elastic means mounted on said bearing and adapted to hold said flap in a raised position when said door is open, and means adapted to depress said flap when said door is closed.

6. An adjustable Weather strip, in combination with a door, a bearing, a movably mounted flap, an arm having one end thereof encircling said bearing and its other end engaging said flap, a coil spring mounted on said bearing and adapted to press against the end of said arm encircling said bearing whereby said flap is held in a raised position when said door is open, and means adapted to depress said flap when said door is closed.

7. An adjustable weather strip, in combination with a door, a bearing, a movably mounted flap, flap engaging means slidably mounted on said bearing, and means tending to slide said slidably mounted flap engaging means to raise said flap.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiiX my slgnature 1n presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES ANDERSON. Witnesses WV. E. COSTELLO, W. P. ANTHONY. 

